SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1921
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
ALLIES WILL PAY
DEBT SAYS
LIMIT
Denies Secret Understand-
ing As To Allied Indebtedness
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 23.
AH the allies will pay their war
debt to the United States. Thom
t at V. Lamont, partner. In J. P.
Morgan and company, who was
one! of the United States treasury
representatives upon the American
commission to negotiate peace,
declared tonight before the Phil
aaejphia Public Ledger forum on
thej peace conference.
"I note a constant reference to
some secret understanding arrived
at In Paris," said the financier,
between President Wilson and
his jadvisers on one hand and the
French and British representa
- lives on the other, to the effect
tha allied indebtedness to the
United States, should, in whole or
in part, be cancelled or forgiven.
"i'There ain't no such thing.'
From start to finish President
Wilson and his advisers, without
exception, opposed vigorously and
finally, any suggestion of cancel
lation. There was not commit
ment, expressed or inferred, no
" remote moral or otherwise, as to
the handling of the allied indebt
edness to the United States gov
ernment. All ' the main facts in
the ! suggested arrangement for
the substitution of German for
Belgian bonds were made public
at the lime.
The whole question1 of Interna
tional debts ' is a most important
onej The American people must
determine it upon the principle of
what caurse is best calculated to
benefit the world as a whole, in
cluding America."
The $46,000,000,000 which
Germany was notified she must
pay i over a series of 42 years by
the recent ' settlement at Paris.
. Mr. 'Lamont said if amortized at
8 per cent and brought back
to present values, would represent
a capital sum of thirteen billions,
plus! what ever amount Germany
had Already paid On acount. which
he said, does not seem unreason
able; He told how General Smuts in
the parts discussions, finally con-
were in Salem Thursday on lusi
ness. Mr. and Mrs. C D. Hartman
were Salem visitors Wednesday.
Misses Frances and Pauline Se
m'olke went to Portland Wednes
day after spending the winter with
relatives here.
Mrs. Charles McConnel and
daughter Norma were Silverton
visitors. Wednssday afternoon.
Charles Scott wa"a Salem vis
itor last week.
Matt Semolke has returned
from southern California whT
he has been spending the past
few months.
-Elvln Shepherd was in Monr.':
Angel Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Giger and fam
ily Mrs. L. S. Rice were Salem vic
tors Tuesday.
R. A Lawrence was a Salem
visitor Thursday.
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AT THE LIBRARY I
siona should be included In the
reparation bill. Some of the ex
perts, he said, : gathered fa the
president's library and explained
to him that they couldn't find a
single lawyer in the American
delegation who would give an
opinion in favor of including pen
sion, and ) that all logic was
against It.
"Logic! Logic!"' Mr. Lamont
Bald the president exclaimed.,"!
don't give a damn for logic. Iam
going to include pensions."
f'Tnere was not one of as in
the room whose heart did not bta.
with! a like feeling," said Mr. La
mont. I
"I I am going to take this op- i
portunlty," he continued, "to say J
a word as to President Wilson's
attitude at the peace conference
He is accused of having been un
willing to consult his colleagues.
I never saw a man more ready and
anxious to consult-than he. Ho
has been accused of having been
desirous to gain credit for him
self nd to Ignore others. I nev
er saw a man more considerate of
those of his coadjutors who were
working immediately under him.
nor a man more ready, to give
them credit with the other chiefs
of state. . -I
"President Wllaon undoubted
ly had his disabilities. If it came
to a horse trade, Lloyd George
could! nndoubtedly have 'out-jockeyed
him: but it seldom reached
such: a situation, because Presi
dent Wilson, by his manifest sin
cerity and open candor, always
saying precisely what he thought,
would early disarm his opponents
In argument. ri
'Pres'dent Wilson did not have
a well organized secretarial staff.
He did far too much of the work
himself. In execution we all have
a blind spot in some part of our
eye. i President Wilson's was such
Inability to use men. an inability
mind; you, not a refusal. On the
contrary, when any of us volun
teered or insisted upon taking re
sponsibility off his shoulders, he
was delighted." '
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DUBLIN. Fe-j. 21. British de
termination to apply the newly
enacted Home Rule bill has inject
ed new complexities into the Irish
imbroglio.
The big questions of the hour
are whether conditions in South
ern Ireland are too chaotic to per
mit the experiment of an election
and whether the electors in that
section will refuse to vote.
An important problem in Ul-J
ster is whether the Nationalist mi
nority will refuse to accept the
Home Rule act and thus give full
sway to Unionists, of whom Sir
Edward Carson has long been lead
er (since succeeded by Sir James
Craig).
These are the dominant issues,
on which the whole coountry is
speculating. j
Preparations for tne application
of the act in Northern Ireland are
In an advanaced stage. There it
is to come into force at the earli
est possible convenient date. The
splendid Belfast city hall will be
placed at the disposal of the new
northern parliament, eliminating
any delay for erection of a parlia
ment house. It Is assured that the
Carson adherents will have a
working majority. The result will
depend on how extent to which
the Nationalists in northern Ulster
dissatisfied wfth its severance
from the rest of Ireland, go to the
polls.
If they vote in proportion to
their number, they will form some
what less than half of the mem
bership of the new body. The
Carsonites will be given virtual
carte blanche if the Nationalists
boycott the election. Refusal ot
the Nationalists to vote will not
prevent the parliament from func
tioning. In the south, there are two
main currents of opinion in offi
cial and Unionists circles. The
one which appears to predominate
is in favor of letting the south
make a trial of the act at the same
time as the north. The other view
is that in the south the time for
attempted application of the act
Is inopportune.
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prunes in inw easi is .uu io me iccnuy chain stores hat
extremely low prices tend to thedown th -.- ,HMi, '
fact that certain largo wholesaler ... "'.f,j
houses having sold out on certain -rfv sire u
sizes of prunes, closed t out their
reinainin stocks at very low
prices." said Mr. Paulas. -With
the exception of dried apples,
prunes are selling the lowest of
all dried fruit on the( market.
"Retail conditions lave also
prevented heavy sales In the east
until lately. General stores have
been retailing the 4 0-SM sizes at
from 35 to 40 cents a round. Re-
The principal
at present Is Knglaaa AJ
ing the pat three. 1
Oregon Growers' Coperj."!, 4
sedation has sold wt .7 J' 4
But in general Mr. tasj f
the prune market rather
factory.
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From several sources, "feelers"
are being put forth In the endeav
or to bring out candidates for the
southern legislature. Men of mod
erate opinion are being asked to
offer themselves. The letter of
Lord Decies. announcing his can
didature, is considered likely to
stimulate willingness among mod
erate home rulers to accept of
fice. The Farmers trolon has an
nounced that it does not intend te
put forward any candidates. - But.
individual farmers have repudi
ated this claim to speak for the
general body, and contend farm
ers should take advantage of the
opportunity offered them.
The old Irish Parliamentary
party has made no move, and its
members seem indisposed to run.
counter to Sinn Fein sentiment.
The home rule act provides that
it shall come into operation on
"the appointed day" which is de
fined as "the first Tuesday in the
eighth month after the month in
which the act is passed, or such
day not more than seven months
earlier or later, as may be fixed
by order of his Majesty in coun
cils." This leaves a wide margim
varying from about the present
tlmeao 15 months hence.
The. main principle of the act Is
the establishment of two equal
parliaments, one in Dublin for
Southern Ireland, and one In Bel
fast for the six northeastern coun
ties, with a central connecting
4 council.
The act even provides that lo
cal parliaments may. if they
choose, abolish themselves alto
gether and turn the central coun
cil Into one parliament for all Ire
land' This single parliament if it
is ever constituted, would exceed
in importance and functions the
home rule parliaments contem
plated by Parnell and Redmond.
Meanwhile many. If not most, of
the powers they contemplated will
be exercisable by each of the local
parliaments in its own area.
Th?re will be but little carry
over of the past season's crop of
prunes, but the prices at which
prunes are being sold are not es
pecially remunerative to the
growers.
This is the opinion of R. C.
Paulus. sales manager of the Ore
gon Growers' Co-operatire asso
ciation. aTter spending three
weeks in Chicago and New York
investigating marketing condit
ions. Th low prices at wliich prunes
are selling are due largely to the
continual cutting of prices by
Independent Interests. Mr. Paulus
said. Although the Oregon Grow
ers' Co-operative association has
endeavored all winter to stabilize
prices, he declares the under-cutting
and hammering of prices by
independents has demoralized the
market. Wholesale firms havB
hesitated to buy, not knowing
when the bottom price was reach
ed, and the result is the present
unsatisfactory market.
"The large consumption ot
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Three men had been murdered
. It was one of the worst crimes
in recent years.
Henry Horsecollar. the eminent
personal deduction detective, was
called tor immediately. To watch
this great man work was a pleas
ure to one and all.
There were many clews. A
doughnnt with a bite out of it was
found on the front sidewalk.
There was a thumbmark on the
flagpole on top of the house. An
old woolen shirt hung on the fire
escape of the next nous.
A beautiful young lady was
seen passing the house of mystery
on her way to the subway. Th
fpeople next door had corned beef
and cabbage for dinner on the day
of the crime. A man down the
street had bought a pianola two
i days before the crime.
I In fact, there were a thousand
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that it took the great detective so
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